Quotes About Belonging

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

That's my dogma. Just borrow any old god-damn religion that happens to be around when you need it and enjoy the pleasure of being with welcoming people. Today, on windy Rocky Ridge beneath a hard blue Wyoming sky, I was a Mormon.

He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole.

Loyalty to her adoptive parents warred with her need for the truth about herself. How could she know where to go in life if she didn't know where she'd come from?

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders

Fear of rejection can trigger deep fears within us, because as humans we have evolved to live in groups for our survival and in the distant past, exclusion from the group might have meant annihilation and death.

and one day this will be the other heart that beats inside of you and on that day you will feel whole for the first time

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day.

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.

cherished his Nebraska

will become whatever I believe a person wants me to be in order to be liked. With

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

WHO WE ARE IS WHERE WE ARE Whenever

Si no tenemos paz es porque hemos olvidado que nos pertenecemos unos a otros.

What we have lost, I think, is a sense of our connectedness to each other and to our ideals—the America that John F. Kennedy asked that we contribute to.

Paris is many different things to many different people, but, for me it is simply "home".

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

You can take us out of Arcadia, but you cannot take Arcadia out of us." Nicholas D. Kokonis, psychologist and author of Arcadia, My Arcadia and Out of Arcadia: The American Odyssey of Angelo Vlahos

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your job if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the advantage of others.